The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 85
‘Farewell,’ said the bird, ‘and if danger presses call to me, and I will help you.’
Who acts: danger presses, I · What happens: say, call, help · To what, where: bird, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger presses, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ‘ | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presses | compound |
| 13 | presses | press | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 call | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bird and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call a condition, not said to happen | present | danger presses | me | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | help | future | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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